down-easter
Americannoun
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a full-rigged ship built in New England in the late 19th century, usually of wood and relatively fast.
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a native or inhabitant of Maine.
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a native or inhabitant of New England.
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Canadian. a native or resident of the Atlantic Provinces.
Etymology
Origin of down-easter
Example Sentences
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And with amazing, quick changes, she can be a featherbrained society woman, a bewildered immigrant, a spare, porch-sitting down-easter, a whole international procession of visitors to an Italian church.
From Time Magazine Archive
George Huntington Hartford, a "down-easter" born at Augusta, Me., went to Manhattan before the Civil War and there operated a modest hide and leather business from his store on Vesey street.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your down-easter is inquisitive to a degree, and the secrecy under which operations on the island were carried on was felt as a distinct affront to the little town.
From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by Goldfrap, John Henry
This was a supposition first made in the Portland cars, when I was at a loss to know what distinguishing and palpable peculiarity marked me as a "down-easter."
From The Englishwoman in America by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
Slave-dealers he discovered were as great adepts at deception in the sale of their commodity as the most knowing down-easter, or tricky horse dealer.
From Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by Brown, William Wells
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